It is not fair to visit Mumbai the commercial capital of India in a single day. However, tourists who are under time pressure can make the visit of this exotic city somewhat a success if they plan properly. The pleasant view of the morning sea shore, roadside sweet and snack stalls, A to Z markets with bargains, high class cafes and the nightlife of the city – everything can be captured to get a memorable experience.
Bandra – Ideal place to spend your dawn
Bandra is famous for the 200 years old traditional colonial houses with big church crosses on their top. The walls are decorated with drapes of urban art in weird colors to give a charming look. Tasting the hot morning mud pot ‘chai’ and taking a fresh breath of the aroma of the baked blueberry muffins, cinnamon rolls and breads from the A one Bakery on the Hill road are the specialty in Bandra. The morning breakfast can be done with omelets, bacon, pancakes and many more in the salt water café at the junction of the Lilavati Hospital. The Carter Road along the sea is very much familiar for the people who go for the morning jog and walk.
Dharavi – The World’s largest slum area
Till the mid of the day, you can visit Dharavi, the place of world’s largest slum. The visit to Dharavi will bring before your eyes, the world’s famous film, Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire. More collectively the streets of Dharavi are filled with small slum area houses, workshops, small businesses and leather tanneries. The shopping spot for the leather goods from the tanneries of Dharavi is the narrow streets near Sion Bandra Link Road. Vada Pao is an important and famous item to have in between the daytime snacks. It is the spicy potato cutlet filling in between the huge sized buns which is very famous for the mid morning road side snacks of the people of Mumbai.
Visit to Washer Men’ Colony
A fleet of white clothes with the smell of detergent is the main identity of Washer men Colony near Mahalakshmi Railway station. This place is where the city’s laundry service is done. The huge washing stones and the array of wide variety of white clothes washed, dried and neatly ironed is the landmark of this area. The workers of this washer men colony help most of the hotels in Mumbai to get their hotels bedclothes and their guest clothes washed maintained more cleanly and neatly.
Another interesting thing of importance in this area is the Dabbawalas which you can see at the time of 11 A.M. They are the gathering of men with huge different colored and coded lunch boxes prepared and packed readily to deliver them to thousands of people working in the nearby offices and this is another source of work for this area people.
The Chor Bazaar:
Apart from the regular market, sells the theft articles in an open market regularly on every Friday from 4.30 A.M. The other goods sold here includes the oriental arts and craft products, old furniture’s, vehicle spare parts, posters and personal items of Bollywood film stars etc. Only the people with good bargaining capacity can fetch more articles at profitable values.
The Gateway of India
This monument of historic importance and Mumbai’s identity was built by the British and is the most attractive place to visit. The other interesting places to visit are the fort area with buildings in colonial style, Jahangir art gallery, Marine Drive etc.
The evening walk along the marine drive, the interesting spot of the city is a memorable one. The entire view of the marine drive will be in the shape of the moon when viewed from the roof top of the intercontinental restaurant ‘Dome’.
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